Shots

I got my last round of shots yesterday.  Yellow fever and typhoid.  They hurt!

Visa

MY VISA HAS ARRIVED!! I have my travel plans to get to the Centro de Treinamento Missionario de Sao Paulo.  I depart on 28 June 2011 and first fly to Chicago then to Dallas where I board a 12 hour flight to Sao Paulo Brazil.  12 days, the the best two years begin!

Pre-Mission Curse

The pre-mission curse has begun.  For those who don't know what happened to the other Elder Berryhill (Bobby, my brother) let me tell you.  Before he left for his mission, he totaled his Ford Excursion and broke our Honda Accord.  His misfortune begun 3 weeks before he was supposed to report to the MTC (Missionary Training Center) and so has mine.  On Monday (June 6th) I picked up my sisters from school in my Jeep Wrangler and on my way home I rear-ended a car in front of our library.  Today (June 10th), my dad and I went to drop off his BMW to be serviced and we were headed to one of his meetings in my mom's Ford Excursion when we noticed an odd noise.  We pulled off the road, popped the hood and started looking to find out what the problem was.  The source of the problem was a broken V-belt.  Being that we were in Solon, we drove to the Ford dealership where they told us that not only was the belt broken but that the broken belt had frayed the positive battery cable down to the core.  What a day, my fingers are crossed that nothing else like this is going to happen before I leave.

This blog will be about my adventures in Belo Horizonte, Brazil for the next two years.  The idea is for me to update this blog when I can, which will most likely be weekly, with the adventures that I've had during the previous week so that everyone who reads this will be able to see what I have been up to.  I leave on the 29th of June 2011 and will return sometime in June 2013.